South Korea Fire in a hospital building etc. 2 hospitalized patients died 36 transported September 24 14:29
In January last year, there was a hospital fire that killed more than 40 people, and a fire has occurred in a five-story complex building that houses hospitals in South Korea, where inspections of buildings by firefighting authorities are proceeding all over the country. Two hospitalized patients died and 36 were smoked and transported.
According to the Korean public broadcaster KBS, a fire broke out in a five-story complex building where a hospital and other facilities were located around 9am on the 24th at Kimpo, Gyeonggi Inner Road in northwestern Korea.
The fire was extinguished about an hour later, but so far two people, including in-patients in their 90s, have been killed, and 36 have been transported by smoke.
Of the five-story building, the hospital is on the third and fourth floors, and at that time, it is estimated that there were approximately 130 inpatients.
In the scene image, you can see how firefighters are fighting fire extinguishing while smoke is emitted from the building.
The fire department is investigating the detailed cause of the fire as it may have fired from the boiler room of the hospital on the 4th floor.
In South Korea, in response to a fire that killed more than 40 people in a hospital in South Gyeongsangnam-do in January last year, fire authorities have fire protection for more than 550,000 buildings over two stories We were in the process of inspecting the system and were trying to strengthen measures in the future.